Automatic mop wringer and washer



(No Model.)

R. C. ANDERSBN. AUTOMATIC MOP WRINGEB AND WASHER.

No. 422,487. Patented Mer. 4, 1890.

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UNITED STATES .PATENT OFFICE.

RICHARD C. ANDERSEN, OF PAVNEE CITY, NEBRASKA.

AUTOMATIC MOP WRINGAER AND WASHER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 422,487', dated March 4, 1890.

' Application tiled July 5, 1889. Serial No. 316,557. (No model.)

To all whom/ it may concern:

Beit known that I, RICHARD C. ANDERsEN, a resident of Pawnee City, in the county of Pawnee and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mop Vringers and Vashers; and I do hereby dehandle in wringing will be directed in or near the axis of the pail or receptacle, and which can withoutentire removal be easily turned back so as not to allow free access to the interior of the pail, and which has other features and advantages to be hereinafter set forth; and the invention consists in the constructions and combinations 'hereinafter de.` scribed and pointed out.

. In theaccompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective and Fig. 2 a sectional view of a modiiied form of the improved wrin ger applied to a tub.

The wringer comprises two frames, one of which consists of two pairs of legs 1 2 and 3 4, firmly connected by one or more cross pieces or plates 5, (shown in end view in Fig. 1 and in section of Fig. 2,) attached to the members 1 and 3, and made to embrace the wall of a pail or other article. The legs 1 3 joined in this or any equivalent manner are intended to lie against the exterior of the receptacle and the legs 2 -and 4 against the interior, as indicated. It is obvious that if the members 2 and 4 were rigidly joined by a plate or by a bar or bars or the like it would not be necessary to so join the exterior inembers 1 and 3, and that the device would be operative were these cross plates or bars omitn ted, since the parts may be rigidly secured to This rod is extended on each side,

at 7, beyond the members of the frame above described, to receive two members 8 of a second frame bent, as shown in the present in 5o stance, to embrace said extensions. The two branches 8 are bentv and secured together at volve thereon a roller-carryinglever 18. The f lever 18 has bracket-arms 11 at its lower end supporting a roller, an oppositely-located roller being supported in the legs 2 and 4 of the lfirst described frame, which may be curved or enlarged to provide suitable bearings thereon. This lever is provided with a slot or seat at 20, adapted to embrace the fulcrum and partially revolve on the same, and can be loosely connected therewith to permit easy removal for cleaning or other purposes. Upon the upper end of the lever is pivoted or journaled a bed or seat 1'2, to receive and support the handle 13.

At 9 is erected a post 14, provided with lone or more catches or ratchet-teeth 15, arranged and adapted to engage the end of the lever 1l', as shown in Fig. 2. This post need not be and preferably is nota spring, as a slight degree of elasticity in the several vconnected parts will permit lever 18 to be sprung under a catch 15. It is released from engagement with the catch by forcing the beveled or rounded edge of the seat 12 down upon the inclined face of the post or catch, by which lever 18 and post .14 can be slightly sprung apart.

16 indicates a set screw or clamp for securing the frame to the pail, and 17 a means for adjusting the frame to receptacles of diiferent-sizes.

19 indicates a guide, of which there are two, one on each of the two parts 2 and 4 of the frame and near the ends of the roller supported in said parts 2 and 4, to retain the mop at the sides when compressed between the rollers. t

The operation. is as follows: The device having been secured to any suitable receptacle, a mop or like article can be placed in the bracket at either side of the horizontal frame, or it can be inserted between the rollers, the lever 18 readily. swinging to a vertical position, whereby the rollers are suitably separated. If the mop be raised. vvertically from the last-described position, nohinderance to its free movement occurs. If, however, the

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handle be inclined and pressed down upon the pivoted seat 12, as represented in the drawings, the lever 1S will be turned upon its fulcrum 10, and its rollers will be caused to approach the roller supported in the vertical frame, and the mop will thereby be compressed between them, and the degree of pressure can be regulated by applying a suitable degree of force to the mop-handle. Under some circumstances it will be desirable to change the contents of the pail after wringing the mop, as above described. To permit this and in the meantime conveniently support the mop, its handle and the lever 18 can be depressed until the upper end of the lever engages one of the catches 15. Several of these can be provided to permit the lower end of mops of diiterent lengths to be retained between the rollers, and this also provides for a variation or increase of pressure onthe same mop. When subsequently it is desired to release the mop, the seat 12, having the beveled end bearing on the outer inclined face of catch 15, as shown in Fig. 2, is forced downwardly, with the effect to slightly spring apart the lever and the post and to release th e former from its engagement with the catch.

If free and unobstructed access to the interior oi the pail is desired, the horizontal fra-me can be swung back on its joint at 7. To remove the device entirely it is only necessary to loosen the screw or clamp 16 and the wringer can be lifted from the pail. It can be adjusted to pails ol slightly-diierent diameters by means of this screw or to those varying more widely bythe fastening-bolt at 17, which operates in a slot in one of the overlapping parts of the frame, as will be readily understood.

The details of the construction above described ean be varied by mechanical skill without departing from the invention. The frames can be made of wire, of wrought or cast iron, or they can be stamped out of steel and then suitably formed. Thus the vertical frame could be stamped out of metal an d then bent to embrace the edge of the pail, a pintle or journals for the horizontal frame being provided by extensions from the same or by suitably-secured wire, or in any like wellknown manner. The parts made of metal may be galvanized, plated, or otherwise protected against corrosion.

It will be noted that the device secures the several advantages of easy adjustment or of removal, whether temporary or permanent, and that in operation the force that wrings the mop is exerted in a vertical line near the axis of the pail, so as to avoid all danger of tipping the same without requiring that it be specially held for that purpose.

I am aware that mop-wringers have been provided with two hinged frames, and such Vmatter is not of my invention. My frames are so constructed and arranged that work-y in g-pressure on the mophandle is transmitted to a horizontal frame supported on opposite edges of the receptacle, and also so that the rollers are entirely below the top of the receptacle, whereby water squeezed from clothes is all kept in the receptacle and the horizontal frame is adapted to be swung to one side immediately over the vertical frame, so that the receptacle is at such timepractically unobstructed and the ready introduction or removal of clothes or water is freely permitted.

Having thus described my invention, what I desire to secure by Letters Patent is as follows:

1. In a mop-wringer, the combination of a vertical frame having' outer and inner pendent legs or members adapted to embrace the vertical wall of a receptacle, a'roller journaled in the two inner legs, a second frame movable about journals on said vertical frame and extending across to the opposite side of the receptacle and there supported on its wall, a bracket or roller-carrying lever hinged or journaled on a cross-bar secured to said horizontal frame, and a roller carried thereby, substantially as described 2. .In a mop-wringer, a frame having pend ent members adapted to embrace the wall of a receptacle, a roller journaled in the inner members below the top of the receptacle, a

horizontal frame hinged to the vertical frame and extended to and supported by the opposite side of the vessel, a second roller, and a roller-carrying lever journaled or hinged to the horizontal. frame and extending down to the level of the first-named roller, substantially as described.

3. In a mop-wringer, a vertical frame having two members extended down into the re ceptacle adjacent to its wall and supporting a roller, and having guides secured to said members located belovt7 the roller, a second frame hinged to the vertical frame and supported on the top of the receptacle at a point opposite the first-named frame and having a bracket or roller carrying lever hinged thereto, and a roller journaled therein and adapted to be moved thereby immediately above the guides and against the first-named roller, both being entirely within the receptacle, substantially as described.

4. In a mop-wringer, a bracket-frame extending across and supported -on opposite edges of a receptacle, a transverse bar conneeting the branches of the frame at or near a central vertical plane through the receptacle, and a roller-frame connected to the re ceptacle near the branched end ot the first frame and supporting a roller, said rollers depending from t-he respective frames below the top of thc receptacle, substantially as de scribed.

5. The combination, in a mopqvringer, of the vertical and horizontal. frames hinged together, each supporting a roller, the rollersupporting lever fulcrumed on the horizontal ICO IIO

frame, the post, vand the seat for the mophandle pivoted` to the lever, substantially as described.

The combination, in am'op-wringer, of the Sfveiiieal and horizontal frames, each supporting a roller, the roller-supporting lever fulerumed on the horizontalframe, the post, and the seat for` the mop-handle pivoted to the lever, said pivoted seatvhaving a beveled end to engage the upper end of the post, Substantially as described.

7. In a mop-wringen theoombination of a horizontal frame adapted to rest on the top of a pail and provided With a vertical post,

and a roller-carrying lever fulorumed in the frame, provided with a pivoted seat adapted to receive the mop-handle, the post being sit- `mated near the axis of the pail, substantially as described.

8. In a mop-Wringer, the combination of the horizontal frame, the roller-Carrying lever 

